Merry Christmas 2007

“Praise God from whom all blessing flow. Praise Him all creatures here below.” These are important words to our family and we eagerly accept our responsibility to give God credit for all the wonderful things He has given us this year. We love life and family and all our duties which we [...]

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Quote of the Day

Gene Veith in WORLD magazine…
“After building strong families, the surest tactic for winning the culture war is plain: Give your kids a better education than their secularist peers.”

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How to Bless a Missionary this Christmas

Some good ideas from Desiring God Ministries.
Here are 13 post-office-free ideas to get you started, most of which you could do right now from your desk:

Pray specific Scripture for them and their ministry, and then email it to them.
Call or email their parents—Christmas might be just as lonely for the ones at home as the [...]

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12 Days of Christmas…sort of

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I’ll Take My 8-10″ of Snow

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Flashbacks

Television Tunes
…because you still can’t get the Silver Spoons theme music out of your head.  My favorite.

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Love in Trifles

How Would Jesus Call?
by Ken Myers for the Dallas Morning News
An article in the April issue of Wired magazine makes some frightening predictions about the dangers of three cutting-edge technologies. Though Wired is better known for treating the latest gadgets and high-tech systems either with irreverent glee or awe-filled reverence, this [...]

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A Beautiful Book

Without speaking to the content, what an immensely beautiful book! And for $4 mil, why not?

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The Boomershine Boys Wish to Wish YOU a Ridiculously Silly Moment

Watch our music video. (It might take a minute to load.)

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Five Reasons to Give Books as Christmas Presents this Year

Here’s the list of great reasons.
[Need a recommendation?  You can check out my Tool Crib (which hasn't been updated in a while) or What I'm Reading pages to get some ideas, or you can look here for what to buy me. =) Or you can always ask me for personal recommendations.]

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Have you Heard of Libera?

Thanks, Dani, for the recommendation.  I find them intriguing in a way.  I appreciate on their introductory video one boy said that, “All boys in the world can sing like us; they just don’t know they can.”  That comment has put me to thinking. 
[The introductory video is the second link on the videos page.]

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Importance of Great Literature

In our search for good, true and beautiful we need to be reminded what we ought to be looking for.  This is a fantastic article that explains the deep and pressing necessity of exposing our kids to the best stuff.  It won’t hurt.   It tastes great AND it’s good for them.
Read it…read it…READ IT!!
[I have [...]

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For Whom Is the Vote Tallied?

I don’t know, but I’m working on it. I just started the process of thinking about the new President question this week. It really matters little to me that they have been posturing for a year a half already. My vote is going to be cast in about 40 days at the [...]

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Jonathan Edwards

I just finished reading a comprehensive biography of JE.  He’s a man worth knowing a lot about.  Here’s a good super-summary of why you should like him that is posted at Redeeming Womanhood.

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Beauty In Idleness? Can This Really Be Idleness?

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What is Christmas All About?

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From the Backseat

Karsten, dramatically, after having just returned from a long and arduous sphere- retrieval expedition from behind the sofa: “And yyyet another Kaaaarsten Boooomershine success story!”
[He is is Papa's son.  Originally attributed to RK.]

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